In an evaluation of over 200 AI funding rounds in Could, 73 went to seed stage GenAI-core startups. To catch rising developments, I zoomed in on Seed phases with >$1m funding, primarily rising within the post-ChatGPT period and solely funded final month. 🚀
We seen startups concentrating on elevated degree of automation when from copilots (18 of 72) to finish workflow automation (17 of 73). Agentic automation (9 of 73) continues to be on the rise with H Company shining with their $200m seed spherical. 💡
Decrease down the stack early stage startups appears to be concentrating on the rising challenges from the prototype to manufacturing hole, principally round GenAI safety and compliance whereas avoiding the now pretty crowded infrastructure/platform , LLM / LLMOPS , dev tooling areas. (Publish seed phases had been nonetheless energetic with vital investments going to xAI Vercel Scale AI RunPod CoreWeave.)
The horizontal / vertical devide sees a major shift to vertical (64 of 73) nearly predominantly b2b use-cases.
There have been sparks of modern use-cases round empathatic AI, hashtag#RevOps, hashtag#AdOps with foremost developments captured within the hooked up doc…
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